The “Arrange Documents”

In Photoshop CS4, we have the new option “Arrange Documents”.
What this option does is, it divides the open photos in different panes.
We use this example, to drag selected portions of one photograph to another.
As an example I opened five photos.
When I click the “Arrange Documents” button in the Application bar, a menu appears with several options to view the open photos at the same time.
As an example, I chose four photos. This puts our four pictures each in their own window. The fifth photo is placed under the same window as the first.
The picture with the light gray tab is active, in this case photo No. 1.
To activate another photo either click the tab or click in the picture.

If you want to move a picture, click and drag the tab of the photo to where you’d like to place it. When a blue line appears, release the mouse button.
You can insert a photo at any position you want. If you want to place other pictures between these, no problem, if you want to place it under a different tab, no problem. Once you see a blue bar, release the mouse button.

There are a number of other options in the drop-down menu for “Arrange documents”:
The “Match Zoom” will zoom all the photos to the same zoom value.
The “Match location” will adjust all the photos to the same location in the picture or at least try.
To navigate using the “Hand” tool in all the pictures at the same time, hold the Shift key on your keyboard while you drag in a photo with the “Hand”.

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